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FREON ToDo

January 26th, 2006 at 4:05PM in

I am irritated with constantly saying FREON needs an update but then doing nothing about it. For no one besides myself, here is a to-do. Core

  • Fix code hierarchy. Things are duct-taped all over the place, paths are screwy and uniformity sucks. A lot was broken with the image gallery code...
  • Remove/Fix/Rewrite Photo Gallery This thing is a wart, and it's poorly implemented, breaks all of the plugin conventions. Decide to fix, remove, or rewrite.
  • Improve plugin loading/detection Plugins need to either be bound to the admin interface or loaded if present. Pick one
  • Correct SESSION expiry Some people (myself included) might like to just remain logged in. Fix it


User Interface

  • Fix style switching Right now it's so fucked it's not even usable
  • Avatar selection Upon review, the old code is a total wash and shouldn't even be reworked. Write new code to allow users to select avatar.
  • Link administration The Quicklinks/navbar code needs to be expanded to allow setting table elements "visible" "weight" and "admin" from within the admin interface. Let's stop relying on phpMyAdmin
  • Comment work Several parts to this, allow users to enable/disable showing the story they are commenting on, decide if this should be enabled/disabled by default, clean up the display, and rename. This is no longer part of the forums code, it should be moved out of that module
  • WYSIWYG Editor for comments/posts This has been on the to-do, and the current "post story" editor code stinks anyways. Probably should update to something snazzy like TinyMCE or more preferably, rip off the gizmodo/movabletype AJAX preview thingy.


Design!

  • Default Theme The default theme is stale. Time to re-work it to something "nicer"
  • More themes It's time to start adding more themes to the site, let's shoot for at least three total (counting the default). Probably the default blue/white type theme, something dark for the goths/Daves of the world, and maybe something else....


Uncategorized

  • IE Support? If time/patience/motivation permits...perhaps consider supporting IE more actively. Maybe better support with some sort of ... punishment?
  • IE 7 Support? Since we know that currently the site looks fine under IE7, should this be addressed or ignored?

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2 Comments. Comments Closed!

hanzo

Jan 26th, 2006 at 7:08PM

Two things banged out... The article the comments are on is now shown above the comments section, and I added a "Show/Hide Story" link...
Clicky Clicky!

figment

Jan 30th, 2006 at 10:22AM

definitely, as the computers in the labs at Pitt are IE only, and there's not a damn thing I can do to change it.  I was bitching about it last week.  Ask Dave.